Price tag holder



Feb. 20, F SPNDLER 1,948,053

PR ICE TAG HOLDER Filed May 12, 1933 E- PRIC Inventor flllorney PatentedFeb. 20, 1934 PRICE TAG HOLDER Fritz Spindler, St. Louis, Mo.

Application May 12, 1933. Serial No. 670,785

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for securing a price tag to a garmentor the like, and consists in the provision of a clip which may bereadily attached to the garment and the price tag, for holding thelatter in a position on the garment to fully expose the advertising dataon the price tag.

Briefly, the invention consists in the provision of a spring clip ofextremely simple construction, which can be manufactured at a normalcost, and which is free or all protuberances or projections as mighttear and otherwise damage the cloth to which the price tag is to beapplied.

The invention, together with its numerous objects and advantages will bebest understood from a study of the following description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing, wherein is illustrated apreferred embodiment of the invention.

It is to be understood at the outset, that the invention is not intendedto be restricted to the precise details of construction, combination andarrangement of elements, or material as herein shown and specified,otherwise than as may be found necessary to meet the requirements ofprior art and scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing:-

Figure 1 is an elevational view, illustrating the application of theinvention.

Figure 2 is an elevational view of the clip per se, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side edge elevational view of the clip.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, it will be seen that theclip is formed from a single length of spring wire bent in a suitablemanner to provide a pair of co-acting, substantially U-shaped springjaws 5, 6, which lie, as will be clear from a study of Figure 3, insubstantially the same vertical plane with the jaw 6 arranged within thejaw 5, and with one side 'I of the jaw 6 connected with the side 8 ofthe jaw 5, through the medium. of a curved portion 9 of the wire. Thefree end of the side 7A of jaw 6 is provided with a return bend 10 andthe free end of the side 8A of the jaw 5 and is also provided with areturn bend 11, the bends 10, 11, extending in reverse directions, aswill be clear from a study of Figure 3. By bending the ends of the wireto form the return bends 10, 11, the possibility of the ends of the wirepenetrating either the price tag or the cloth of the garment will bereduced to a minimum.

In actual practice, as shown in Figure 1, the clip is engaged with thecloth 12 of the garment,

and the price tag 13 with one jaw, in the present instance the jaw 8,the jaw 6 engaging the tag 13, and the other jaw, in the presentinstance the jaw 5 engaging the cloth 12 of the garment, at the sidethereof opposite to the price tag 13.

The manner of applying the clip to the garment and tag is thoughtapparent, the jaws being bent laterally to receive therebetween thecloth and the price tag, the portion 9 forming a closed end for the clipand extending across the adjacent edges of the cloth 12 and tag 13 asclearly shown in Figure 1.

The portion of the wire forming the closed end of the jaw 5, that is tosay, the portion of the wire connecting one end of the side 8, 8A, ofthe jaw 5, is suitably worked to provide a substantially corrugated endportion 14 to bear against the card 13 to insure a more positiveengagement of the clip with the card 13 for securing the tag 13positively against longitudinal and angular movement.

appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I wish to claim, is:-

A spring clip of the character described, formed from a single length ofwire and comprising a pair of co-acting substantially U-shaped jawslying in substantially the same plane and arranged one within the other,said jaws having the sides thereof converging at one end of the clip, acurved connecting part connecting one side of the inner jaw with a sideof the outer jaw remote from said one side of the inner jaw, and. eachof said jaws having the free side thereof at the terminal portion of thewire provided with a return bend, and the outer one of said jaws at theclosed end of the U being worked to provide a substantially corrugatedgripping part for said outer jaw.

